Windmills

[Paul]

I know that in 20 years or so we'll need all the power we can get but Scotland is going to be a total no low flying fly zone for ever if they keep on building these blooming wind farms.

http://renews.biz/story.php?page_id=72&news_id=2717

After all I read in the Internet that their life is 20-25 years so they'll replacing them at what cost though?
It costs £600,000 to install a single, 1MW turbine according to Farmers Weekly (and that's second hand).

I'm probably not going to be very popular but I think we should be pushing nuclear. After all there isn't really a viable alternative and the wave driven schemes are a joke.

[Metroyeti]

Nuclear power is good but the nuclear waste puts people off. If they could find a safe way to dispose of it rather than burying,more people would favour it. The frogs and japs seem to like it.

[Hrusai]

there are safe ways of disposing of nuclear waste, many of them, but all are overlooked there are also nucleaer power plants designed to give off safer byproducts, that cant be processed to make weaponry

go nuclear

[Paul]

Bit dodgy about the Japanese I would have thought but after all the raw fuel comes from the ground so why shouldn't it go back in?
There are a few places where no one would worry about the consequences of dumping it.
For example. Houses of parliament.

[Hrusai]

well i prefer 2 methods of waste disposable myself, one is using a network of mirrors to superheat the waste and vaporise it into almost nothingness, and the second would be to build a huge gauss cannon and fire the waste directly at the sun ^^

[Tibbs735]

Thorium nuclear waste reactors, would allow us to slowly eat through the big pile of plutonium we have accumulated, which presents a security risk. It would allow us to power the UK for 500 years!

[Ranger]

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(30 September 2012, 12:32)Metroyeti Wrote: Nuclear power is good but the nuclear waste puts people off. If they could find a safe way to dispose of it rather than burying,more people would favour it. The frogs and japs seem to like it.

pretty sure i read recently that the japanese, long term, were bailing out of nuclear power after their last "surf's up" mishap

[Metroyeti]

Im pretty sure that put a spanner in their works.well they used to think it was good.

[Skean Dhude]

IJapan has always had earthquakes. That is why they built the way they did. Why they went nuclear is beyond me. Here in the UK we are much safer.

[Hrusai]

(30 September 2012, 21:40)Skean Dhude Wrote: IJapan has always had earthquakes. That is why they built the way they did. Why they went nuclear is beyond me. Here in the UK we are much safer.

my thoughts exactly, nuclear is fine, just not on or near a tectonically active site

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should be common sense really